教育教学的最根本目的就是培养人的素质和开发人的潜能。人的素质和潜能是多类型、多层次的,在这当中自主发展和自主学习是最基础也是最核心的潜能和素质,它能够发展并且形成其他方面的潜能和素质。所以,在现代英语教学当中应该把发展、培养学生的潜能与素质作为重中之重。本文在笔者从事多年英语教学工作的基础上,结合新课改理念,对如何提高英语课堂教学质量提出了相应的对策,供广大同行参考与指导,并具有借鉴性意义。 The most fundamental purpose of education and teaching is to train people’s quality and develop their potential. Human qualities and potentials are multi-type and multi-level. Among these, independent development and autonomous learning are the most basic and most core potentials and qualities. They develop and form other potential and qualities. Therefore, among the modern English teaching should take the development and cultivate the potential and quality of students as a top priority. Based on the author’s many years of English teaching, combined with the new concept of curriculum reform, this article puts forward some countermeasures to improve the quality of English classroom teaching, which can be used as a reference and guidance for the majority of peers.